It started in a room, more of a closet

Nate and tim disagree on the room number. tim thinks it’s 101. nate says 102. or maybe it’s the other way around. either way, they were so low in standing as pledge brothers in the spring of 1997 at sigma phi epsilon, indiana university bloomington, that when it came time to pick rooms for the next year they had the last and second to last pick. tim was last. pretty sure about that. the room they selected, the only one left on the board, was 101 (0r 102), it’s basically a closet.

in the fall of 1998, somehow nate and tim fit an old, uncomfortable, water-logged, moldy brown couch and a stereo between their closets. and that’s where kid clayton began. listening to cd’s and hanging out. dave matthews, phish, grateful dead, the who, pearl jam, the beatles, stones...and on and on.

eventually, byanski and ganoli and dr. rosen and massurous would all join us and crowd in until someone would say, why are we all squeezed into this closet? and we would all go off into 104 or 108 and have more space, better couches, less mold, and a better stereo, but something would be lost…